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Everything I Need
02:54
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Everything I Need
The break of dawn
The curtains drawn
I hear you breathing low
A dog over the hill and a train far away
Everything I Need Is Here
A fire burns
The waiting birds
The smoke it fills the room
The echo of your voice through the kitchen walls
Everything I Need Is Here
Everything I Need Is Here
I’ve made my bed of roses
What I need is here
Everything I Need, Everything I Need Is Here
A crimson flood
A splash of blood
Flames whisper as you sleep
Vanish In the embers as the sky congeals to black
Everything I Need Is Here
Oh won’t you rock me gently as I sleep tonight
Everything I Need Is Here
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Nowhere At All
04:10
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Nowhere At All
A man he went a-wandering to avoid all the war mongering
And settled in the east of Italy
After all his travelling his life it was unravelling
“You’ve no idea what the road has done to me”
“Ah well I’m gonna cross the border, I’m not afraid of breaking orders
Your boundary lines they mean nothing at all
And this wind is full of promise
It’ll blow away the jaundiced
Cynicism filling up my soul”
Home Is Within You
Home Is Within You
Home Is Within You or Nowhere At All
And in his face well she could see a melancholic history
From every wrinkle there could spring a song
She called him sleepwalker;
She said, “You live life like a sleepwalker”
He said “Hey I wasn’t sleeping I was burying my feelings
And the wind well it just blew me along
Yes the wind is full of promise
It can blow away the jaundiced dreams that I have carried for so long”
And yes I will go wherever the wind may blow me
And I will sleep wherever I rest my head
And it don’t matter if there are no walls around you
And there are clichés all over the world
Because they’re true
But the darkness it can follow you, overtake and swallow you
And the wind can blow my ashes in the air
I bottle up my ghosts in here
I’m holding all my secrets near
And writing all the words that I can’t share
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Madeleine
03:56
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Madeleine
I’ll follow her again tonight, and vanish as she sinks into the sea
Shadows green neon lights, dance before my eyes as if to fool me
She’ll become my mockingbird; she’ll become the one I once attained
Muffled conversations I once heard, whisper softly in my ears again
And she wanders
God knows where she’s been
If I could change the colour of your hair
And softly kiss your lips beneath the bell tower
And I’m set adrift as you climb the stairs
But my words are lost in the wind and the bells
And she wanders
Angels watch as she wanders
And she travels
God knows where she’s been
If this barren kiss is your final gift
You cut the ropes and I’m all at sea
I’m trapped here in my restlessness
And frightened by my strange troubled romance
She’s lost among the graves and I’m alone
She’s lost among the graves and I’m alone
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Where Will I Be?
03:40
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Where Will I Be?
The sky opened up it was iron clad black
I thought I heard a voice in the thunderclap
The voice said “Son what have you done
To prove yourself a righteous one?”
I buried my face in the ash and the dust
It’s too late for that if your hearts turned to rust
You gotta shovel the earth and dig your hole
You gotta shovel the earth and dig your hole
I said “Where Will I Be?” “Down in the dirt by the bottlebrush tree”
I said “Where Will I Be? When the time comes
When the time comes, when the time comes”
Well there’s a road that’s narrow, a road that’s wide
We’re on a dusty trail ‘tween the great divide
And as he scrubbed my name out from his book
The ground and the leaves and the trees all shook
I gotta shovel the earth and dig my hole
I gotta shovel the earth and dig my hole
I said “Where Will I Be?” “Down In the dirt by the ironbark tree”
I said “Where Will I Be?” “From dust you became and dust you will be”
I said “Where Will I Be? When the time comes
When the time comes, when the time comes”
O, roll my bones, deflate my lungs
Steal my breath and the songs we’ve sung
Heaven above and heaven below
I’ve paid my ticket to the picture show
Heat will cool and bleach bones white
Credits roll as day becomes night
I’m gonna write my sins upon the air
And watch them dissolve
And watch them dissolve
I said “Where Will I Be?” “Down In the dirt by the old gum tree”
I said “Where Will I Be?” “From dust you became and dust you will be”
I said “Where Will I Be? When the time comes
When the time comes, When the time comes”
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I Don’t Know What’s Become Of Her
I don’t know what’s become of her
She left a trail of sugar cubes
Between the thieves and the prostitutes
So she could find her way home
She caught glimpses of the Opera House
From tired shopping malls and roundabouts
You can know where you are and still be lost
Hugging ghosts upon the road
Time rode on,
She stopped believing
Until proved wrong
She said ‘I’m tired and I don’t want to start
To salvage what’s left of this broken heart
Even the devil was once beautiful
Full of topaz, jade and light
But when you take the punches as they come,
So you dance the dance and strum the strum
Fake it ‘til you make it and you then become
Somebody they despise
Queued around the block
Behind the nightclub
She’d hear the tick tock
Somebody said that she had asked for it
Though no one cared enough to recollect
Just who it was that she was talking to
When she was swallowed by the night
And one young girl said she turned around
And saw her drivers license on the ground
There was a hole where her face had been
Beneath the coca cola sign
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Killer Anxiety
02:55
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Killer Anxiety
Somebody switch my mind off
Somebody make it stop
Stick your hand inside my brain
And turn the sucker off
Tell me I’m not dying
Or remind me I’m not dead
Help me find my happy place
Inside my spinning head
I’ve got killer anxiety
I’ve got killer anxiety
Somebody slow the panic
Somebody halt the fears
Tell me all my phobias
Are in between my ears
Somebody slow my breathing
And grab a paper bag
Somebody call a doctor
Before my two knees sag
And if you wanna know me
Just sit in on my therapy
And if you wanna know me
Just sit in on my therapy
Tell me I’m not dying
Or remind me I’m not dead
Help me find my happy place
Inside my spinning head
Somebody start the party
Somebody light the fuse
Somebody find my pillbox
I’ve got nothing left to lose
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Last Card
04:02
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Last Card
I’ll meet you in the reeds by the river and there I will lay down
To stare up at the cold night sky and we’ll listen to the hum of the tide
I’ll call your name out with the sirens, I’ll lure you from your front yard
But as I stare into my hands my dear I realise I’m playing my last card
We carve our names beneath the boathouse window
I couldn’t tell you who half these people are
Sometimes love can disappear like dust
But we’re all lit up beneath the same dim winter star
You wear the silver mist like an evening gown
The withered trees are all standing guard
And as you stare into your hands my dear
You realise you’re playing your last card
I pick the seven of hearts but it’s too late to start
Your feet are all tangled in weeds
Now as we drift slowly out to the horizon,
While all that we have treasured we abandon and discard
And as we stare into our weathered hands my dear
We realise we’re playing our last card
Yeah we realise we’re playing our last card
Yeah we realise we’re playing our last card
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Four Winds
03:51
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Four Winds
I’m holding back the four winds
And my arms are getting tired
I’m holding back the four winds
It’s been windy round these parts for quite a while
I’m climbing Jacob’s Ladder
And I’m itching for a fight
I’m climbing Jacob’s Ladder
And rung-by-rung I’m slipping through the night
But there’s wheels within wheels spinning in my mind
As all these restless passengers are thrown over the side
Wheels within wheels and I’m trying to hitch a ride
But the storm never stops and the wind never drops
I’m swimming in the Red Sea
Walls of water either side
I’m swimming in the Red Sea
Take me as the ocean opens wide
Threads that hold us together
These stitches are starting to fray
Threads that hold us together
Blow wind, blow these threads away
Blow wind, blow away, blow until my dreams all come undone
Ill wind blow away, sing to me the songs that we have sung
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Bone Orchard
02:22
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Bone Orchard
I’m going down to the Bone Orchard
At the edge of town there’s a Bone Orchard
I’m going down to the Bone Orchard
Gonna lay my body down
I got down on my knees last night
And hollered up to the night sky
I waited there for a reply
But the voices were all in my head
I whisper secrets to the air
My words are smoke they’re everywhere
The lake is burning fire tonight
And the river is taking me home
I walked up to Sovereign Hill
I bought some liquor I paid my bill
I dropped a preparation in my gin
That’s the last thing I recall
This is no town for tired old men
Dreams of love haunt me again
Leave sleeping dogs just where they lie
When you wake I will be gone
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O, Dreamtime Blues
06:11
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O, Dreamtime Blues
Like children in a fable we head off down the road
You with your dreamtime blues and me with my heavy load
We prayed this wind would take us and blow these weeds to dust
Limbless gumtrees seem to follow us; apparition in the dusk
And these maps are filled with murder and the crops are full of bones
Tangled in Lantana we’re just trying to find….
We tie our shoes with wire as we hitchhike to the coast
Through brambles and dead lilac as you whisper to your ghosts
And this heat could boil a billy right here on the bonnet of this car
So we drink a little coffee and sleep beneath the stars
I whispered ‘cross the lantern “Your reins have tightened round my heart”
I said “Baby am I dreaming?”
Then bullets fell like stars
The rain it woke my slumber still we lay and listened to the birds
Memories in embers shrivel and disappear as they burn
“Josey, can you hear that? The magpies called our names”
Douse the forest fire with teaspoons watch our history in the flames
The moon it overtook me, left its image in the air
The night sky just engulfs you here; smell of eucalyptus in your hair
You know I’ll still be waiting here long after you’ve gone
We’re so tied up together these threads just will not come undone
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Mark Moldre Sydney, Australia
"If Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Jeff Tweedy were pushed out to sea in a rickety old boat they’d come up with something like this. ..a boisterous yet soulful musical journey worth the fare. You’ll be stomping and crying and laughing, and if you’re lucky to catch Moldre live, you’ll be doing all three with a whiskey in hand.” Timber & Steel ... more
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